the Red & Black and the Greenwashing of Labor Exploitation

Greenwashing of Labor Exploitation
the progressive community needs to be more self-critical
empowering serial exploitative labor abuse scenarios is the disease of the progressive movement.
this is a call to indy media to demand the end of unpaid work at red and black, and demand an immediate Living Wage for current workers, and a scheme of settlement for previous underpaid and abused workers.

until progressive communities renounce the exploitation of interns and free labor and the devaluing of human time and talent, the negative consequences will impact every aspect of our lives and human dignity, not to mention our social security pensions which will leave our unpaid work---non-remunerated---enforcing elderly impoverishment.

the Red & Black and the Greenwashing of Labor Exploitation

red and black is a vegan anarchist cafe. is it because they are anarchist, they don't even pretend to want to follow labor law?---and openly mandate free labor?----this has bothered me a whole bunch. glad i found the time to write this letter to general@redandblackcafe.com, BOLI.mail@state.or.us

I really don't know what to say about this. How can you possibly be against letting Red and Black have this sort of arrangement? It is non-coerced and perfectly in line with the ideals of a co-op to behave in this way.

You seriously think 100 hours of labor that isn't paid into social security is going to significantly impact someone? That is probably less than $50. And again, it is something that is done willingly by the participant.